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Aditi Avasthi
Aditi Avasthi is an Indian entrepreneur who previously worked at Tata Consultancy Services.
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Aditi Mittal
Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer.
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Adriana Behar
Adriana Brandão Behar (born February 14, 1969, in Rio de Janeiro) is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation.
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Agnes Atim Apea
Agnes Atim Apea is a Ugandan Social entrepreneur and founder of Hope Development Initiative.
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Aissa Edon
Aissa Edon is a Malian midwife living in London and an activist against female genital mutilation.
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Al Hudaydah
Al-Hudaydah (al-ḥudayda), also known in English as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida or Hodeidah, is the fourth-largest city in Yemen and its principal port on the Red Sea.
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Al-Shabaab (militant group)
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; حركة الشباب المجاهدين,; Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (lit), is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.
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Alaa Murabit
Alaa Murabit (born October 26, 1989) is a Canadian physician and leading international advocate for inclusive peace processes.
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Alek Wek
Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a South Sudanese-British model and designer who began her fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995.
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Alice Powell
Alice Powell (born 26 January 1993 in Oxford) is a British racing driver.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.
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Amara Majeed
Amara Majeed is a Muslim American activist and author of The Foreigners.
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Amina Tyler
Amina Tyler (أمينة تيلر; born 7 December 1994 as Amina Sboui (أمينة السبوعي)) is a Tunisian student, women's rights activist, and was a member of FEMEN.
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Amna Suleiman
Amna Suleiman (born 1988) is a teacher and advocate for women's cycling in Gaza.
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Amy Cuddy
Amy Joy Casselberry Cuddy (born 1972) is an American social psychologist, author and speaker.
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Angeline Murimirwa
Angeline Murimirwa (Mugwendere) is a Zimbabwean feminist, who is the executive director for Camfed in Africa.
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Angie Ng
Angie Ng is a Malaysian Chinese model born in Penang, Malaysia.
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Anglican Church of Southern Africa
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, known until 2006 as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province of the Anglican Communion in the southern part of Africa.
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Anis Hidayah
Anis Hidayah (born 1976) is an Indonesian activist who works with migrant workers and human rights issues.
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Ann Leslie
Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie, DBE (born 28 January 1941) is a British journalist who writes for the Daily Mail.
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Anna Span
Anna Arrowsmith (born Anna Imogen Thompson 15 January 1972 in Greenwich, London), who works under the pseudonym Anna Span, is an English pornographic film director and producer.
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Anne Stella Fomumbod
Anne Stella Fomumbod is a Cameroonian women's rights activist.
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Anne-Marie Imafidon
Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon (born 1990) is a British computing, mathematics and language child prodigy.
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Antonia Albert
Antonia Albert is an Austrian business economist and entrepreneur.
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Aowen Jin
Aowen Jin is a Chinese-born British artist and social commentator.
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Arabella Dorman
Arabella Dorman (born 1975 in London) is a British war artist and portrait painter.
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Arzu Geybullayeva
Arzu Geybullayeva, also known as Arzu Geybulla, is an Azerbaijani columnist, blogger, and journalist for several newspapers and media news outlets including Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Global Voices, and Agos.
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.
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Ashwaq Moharram
Ashwaq Moharram is a Yemeni physician and activist, noted for her work dealing with starvation in the Yemeni city of Hudaydah.
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Asma Mansour
Asma Mansour is a Tunisian entrepreneur and women's activist who in 2011 co-founded the Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Azadeh Kian
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Íngrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian-French politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.
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Bahia Shehab
Bahia Shehab (1977) is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, art historian, designer and scholar of Arabic script.
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Baloch Students Organization
The Baloch Students Organization (BSO; بلوچ اسٹوڈنٹس آرگنائزیشن) is a student organisation that campaigns for the students of Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
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Barbara Hewson
Barbara Hewson is an Irish barrister with a practice in public law.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes (born 14 May 1967) is an English historian, author and broadcaster.
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Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown (born April 14, 1957) is an American professional makeup artist and the founder and ex-CCO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.
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Brianna Stubbs
Brianna Stubbs (born 13 July 1991) is a British rower and research scientist who won two gold medals for Great Britain at the 2013 U23 and 2016 World Rowing Championships.
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Brie Rogers Lowery
Brie Rogers Lowery is the UK Director of Change.org.
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Brit Morin
Brittany "Brit" Morin (born December 6, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and founder & CEO of Brit + Co, a media company based in San Francisco.
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Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.
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Brooke Magnanti
Brooke Magnanti (born 5 November 1975) is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour.
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Captain America
Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Carmen Aristegui
María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (born January 18, 1964) is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman.
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Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez, OBE (born 1984) is a British feminist activist and journalist.
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Cat Hulbert
Cathy 'Cat' Hulbert is a retired American professional gambler.
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Cecilia Bouzat
Cecilia Bouzat (born 10 December 1961) is an award-winning Argentine biochemist, who studies neurological disorders.
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Cerrie Burnell
Claire "Cerrie" Burnell (born 30 August 1979) is an English actress, singer, playwright, children's author, and former television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies.
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Chan Yuen Ting
Chan Yuen Ting (陳婉婷; born 7 October 1988) is a former football player and assistant coach with Hong Kong Premier League club Eastern.
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Chanira Bajracharya
Chanira Bajracharya (born 1995 in Nepal) is a former Kumari or Living Goddess of Patan in Nepal.
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Charlotte Raven
Charlotte Raven (born 1969) is a British author and journalist.
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Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair (née Booth; born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is a British barrister and lecturer.
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Chipo Chung
Chipo Tariro Chung (born August 17, 1977) is a Zimbabwean actress and activist based in London.
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Christine and the Queens
Héloïse Letissier (born 1 June 1988), known by her stage names Christine and the Queens and, since 2018, Chris, is a French singer, songwriter and producer.
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Cindy Meston
Cindy May Meston is a Canadian clinical psychologist, and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the director of the Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory, perhaps best known for her research into the female orgasm.
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Claire Bertschinger
Dame Claire Bertschinger, DBE, DL, DEd, DSSc, DSc (honoris causa), MSc, RGN (born 1953) is an Anglo-Swiss nurse and advocate on behalf of suffering people in the developing world.
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Claire Fox
Claire Regina Fox (born 5 June 1960) is a British libertarian writer.
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Clare Short
Clare Short (born 15 February 1946) is a British Labour Party politician.
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Claudia Paz y Paz
Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey (born ca. 1967) is the former Attorney General of Guatemala.
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Comic Relief
Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.
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Commonwealth
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.
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Conchi Ríos
Conchi Reyes Ríos (born 11 March 1991) is a Spanish bullfighter.
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Conchita Wurst
Conchita (from 2011 to 2015 Conchita Wurst) is the stage persona of Austrian singer, recording artist and drag queen Thomas Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988).
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Condé Nast
Condé Nast Inc. is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications.
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Cora Sherlock
Cora Sherlock is an pro-life campaigner in the Republic of Ireland.
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Corinne Maier
Corinne Maier Corinne Maier (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss-born, French psychoanalyst, economist, and best-selling writer.
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Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Cosmopolitan is an international fashion magazine for women, which was formerly titled The Cosmopolitan. The magazine was first published and distributed in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine (since 1965).
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Cristina Randall
Cristina Randall is a Canadian-born Mexican entrepreneur profiled in 100 Women (BBC).
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Daughters of Eve
Daughters of Eve is a UK-based non profit organisation that works to protect girls and young women who are at risk from female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Deborah Hopkins
Deborah Hopkins is a British mother and political activist, honoured as one of BBC'S 100 Women in 2013.
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Denise Ho
Denise Ho Wan-see, also known as HOCC (born 10 May 1977), is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer and actor, as well as a pro-democracy and LGBT rights activist.
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Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu (Amharic: ደራርቱ ቱሉ; Afaan Oromo:Daraartuu Tulluu; born March 21, 1972) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who competed in track, cross country running, and road running up to the marathon distance.
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Dhaka Tribune
The Dhaka Tribune is a national English-language compact daily newspaper published in Dhaka Bangladesh.
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Diana Nammi
Diana Nammi is a Kurdish and British activist.
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Diane Coyle
Diane Coyle, (born February 1961) is an economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury.
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Dina Korzun
Dianna Alexandrovna "Dina" Korzun (Дианна Александровна "Дина" Корзун.; born 13 April 1971) is a Russian theater and film actress.
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Dinara Zhorobekova
Dinara Zhorobekova is a Kyrgyzstan Student who represented Turkey at the 2013 G20 Summit.
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Doaa el-Adl
Doaa el-Adl (born 1979) is an Egyptian cartoonist currently working for the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, known for her satirical cartoons with strong political, social or religious themes.
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Efua Dorkenoo
Efua Dorkenoo, OBE (6 September 1949 – 18 October 2014), affectionately known as "Mama Efua",, The Times, 29 October 2014.
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El Al
El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL), trading as El Al (אל על, "To the Skies" or "Skywards", إل-عال), is the flag carrier of Israel.
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Elaine Welteroth
Elaine Marie Welteroth (born December 10, 1986) is an American journalist and editor.
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Elissa Freiha
Elissa Freiha (born c. 1990) is a Lebanese businesswoman and women's economic activist who is the co-founder of Womena, a group which aims to empower women by attracting angel investors to invest in new startups.
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Ella Ingram
Ella Ingram is an Australian activist for mental illness anti-discrimination.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018.
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Ellinah Wamukoya
Ellinah Ntombi Wamukoya (born 1951) is a Swazi Anglican bishop.
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Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino (born 9 March 1948 in Bra) is an Italian politician, she is currently a Senator for Rome.
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Emtithal Mahmoud
Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud is a poet and activist who won the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam championship.
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English Collective of Prostitutes
The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is a campaigning group which supports the decriminalisation of prostitution, sex workers' right to recognition and safety, and the provision of financial alternatives to prostitution so that no one is forced into prostitution by poverty.
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Environmentalist
An environmentalist is a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities".
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Equality Now
Equality Now is a non-governmental organization founded in 1992 whose purpose is to, in its own words, work "for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world".
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Erin McKenney
Erin McKenney (born 9 April 1998) is an American human rights activist.
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Erin Sweeny
Erin Sweeny is an Australian psychologist, recognized with a 100 Women award by the BBC in 2016 for her work in treating sex offenders.
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Ernestina Edem Appiah
Ernestina Edem Appiah (born 1977) is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur.
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Es Devlin
Esmeralda "Es" Devlin OBE is a designer.
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Estela de Carlotto
Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto (Buenos Aires, born October 22, 1930) is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is an international financial institution founded in 1991.
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Evelyn Miralles
Evelyn Rodriguez Miralles is a pioneer and visionary engineer of Virtual Reality Technology at NASA Johnson Space Center with many years of experience developing products and services supporting Human Space Flight at NASA JSC.
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Fatou Bensouda
Fatou Bom Bensouda (born 31 January 1961) is a Gambian lawyer and international criminal law prosecutor.
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Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi (فوزیه کوفی) (born in 1975) is an Afghan politician and women's rights activist.
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Fereshteh Khosroujerdy
Fereshteh Khosroujerdy (فرشته خسروجردی) is a visually impaired Iranian singer.
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Fernanda Ferreira (rower)
Fernanda Ferreira (born 25 January 1985) is a Brazilian rower.
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Funke Bucknor-Obruthe
Funke Bucknor-Obruthe (born 27 June 1976) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and lawyer.
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Funmi Iyanda
Olufunmilola Aduke Iyanda (born 27 July 1971), better known as Funmi Iyanda, is a Nigerian talk show host, broadcaster, journalist, and blogger.
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Gail Rebuck
Gail Ruth Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck, DBE (born 10 February 1952) is a British publisher and Chair of the international book publishing group Penguin Random House's British operations.
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Gcina Mhlope
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe (born 24 October 1958) is a well-known South African anti-apartheid activist, actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author.
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Gemma Godfrey
Gemma Godfrey is a wealth manager and entrepreneur.
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Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications.
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Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is an English film director of Kenyan Asian origin.
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Hatoon Kadi
Hatoon Kadi (هتون قاضي) is a Saudi Arabian comedian and activist who hosts the Noon Al Niswa comedy show on YouTube, which has 292,912 subscribers (as of 8 December 2016).
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Heather Jackson
Heather Jackson (born April 24, 1984) is an American triathlete and track cyclist.
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Heather Rabbatts
Dame Heather Victoria Rabbatts, DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a Jamaican-born British solicitor, businesswoman, and broadcaster, who rose to prominence as Chief executive of the London Borough of Lambeth, the youngest council chief in the UK.
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Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, and was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017.
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Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and producer.
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Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) is a free, non-profit online newspaper based in Hong Kong.
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Hou Yifan
Hou Yifan (born 27 February 1994), China Chess League is a Chinese chess grandmaster and three-time Women's World Chess Champion.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Indira Ranamagar
Indira Ranamagar is social worker and founder of non-profit organisation Prisoner's Assistance Nepal that looks after the children of criminal parents living in jails.
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Ira Trivedi
Ira Trivedi is an Indian author, columnist and yoga acharya.
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Irina Chakraborty
Irina Chakraborty (Ирина Чакраборти, ইরিনা চক্রবর্তী) is a Russian-Finnish-Indian scientist, an environmental engineer and a university instructor.
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Isabel dos Santos
Isabel dos Santos (born 20 April 1973).
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Isabella Springmuhl Tejada
Isabella Springmuhl Tejada (nickname, Belita; born 23 February 1997) is a Guatemalan fashion designer.
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Iskra Lawrence
Iskra Arabella Lawrence (born 11 September 1990) is an English model represented by JAG Models and Models1.
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Jacqui Smith
Jacqueline Jill Smith (born 3 November 1962) is a British Labour politician.
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Jade (wrestler)
Stephanie Bell (born April 16, 1989) is a Korean-American professional wrestler best known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Jade, where she is a former one-time TNA Knockouts Champion.
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Jamilah Lemieux
Jamilah Lemieux is an African-American columnist, cultural critic, and editor based in New York City.
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Jana Elhassan
Jana Elhassan (born 1985) is a Lebanese award-winning novelist and short story writer from Lebanon.
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Jana Tepe
Jana Tepe is a German entrepreneur, the co-founder (with Anna Kaiser) and CEO of Tandemploy, a German job sharing platform for promoting job sharing, especially for positions requiring higher qualifications.
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Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (Jennison; born May 27, 1933) is an American former third-grade schoolteacher, anti-racism activist, and educator, as well as a feminist.
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Janet O'Sullivan
Janet O'Sullivan is a pro-choice campaigner in Ireland.
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Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala
Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala (born 3 September 1979), a past pupil of Bishop's College is the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest.
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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, CBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values.
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Jin Xing
Jin Xing (born August 13, 1967 in Shenyang, Liaoning) is a Chinese ballerina, modern dancer, choreographer, actress, and owner of the contemporary dance company Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre.
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Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, OBE (born 12 July 1962) is a British-American technology industry veteran who currently serves as Group CEO for BenevolentAI.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who was credited with "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century".
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Jody Day
Jody Day is authour of and and founder of Gateway Women, a network for childless women.
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Joyce Banda
Joyce Hilda Banda (née Mtila; born 12 April 1950) is a Malawian politician who was the President of Malawi from 7 April 2012 to 31 May 2014.
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Jude Kelly
Judith ("Jude") Pamela Kelly (born 24 March 1954) is a British theatre director and producer from Liverpool, England.
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Judi Aubel
Judith "Judi" Aubel is an American community health specialist, social entrepreneur and the executive director of The Grandmother Project, a non-profit that works to improve the lives of women and children by focusing on grandmothers.
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Judith Webb
Judith Webb is a former Major in the British Army and a proponent of equal physical standards for male and female service members.
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June Eric-Udorie
June Eric-Udorie (born 18 June 1998) is a writer and feminist campaigner based in Great Britain.
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Justa Canaviri
Justa Canaviri (born 1963) is an Aymara, Bolivian woman who has become noted for her dress in the traditional Chola dress and bowler hat, outspokenness on issues such as family violence, LGBT rights, and indigenous rights.
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Justine Roberts
Justine Juliette Alice Roberts CBE (born October 1967) is the founder and chief executive of British websites Mumsnet and Gransnet.
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Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie (born 13 August 1973) is a British Pakistani novelist.
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Kamini Kaushal
Kamini Kaushal (born 24 February 1927) is a Hindi film and television actress, who is most noted for her roles in films such as Neecha Nagar (1946), which won the 1946 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at Cannes Film Festival and Biraj Bahu (1955), which won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1955.
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Kanya King
Kanya King MBE (born in London) is the founder of the MOBO Awards.
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Karen Masters
Karen Masters (born 1979) is an Associate Professor of Astrophysics interested in galaxy formation who works in Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
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Kartika Jahja
Kartika Jahja is better known by her nickname, Tika.
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Kate Shand
Kate Shand is a British education advisor and businesswoman.
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Kate Smurthwaite
Kate Smurthwaite (born 9 December 1975) is a British stand-up comedian and political activist.
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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights.
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Katrine Marçal
Katrine Linda Mathilda Marçal (née Kielos; born 24 October 1983) is a Swedish writer, journalist and correspondent for Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
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Kavita Krishnan
Kavita Krishnan is Secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA).
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Khadija Ismayilova
Khadija Rovshan qizi Ismayilova, also Ismailova, (Xədicə Rövşən qızı İsmayılova, pronounced /xædiːˈdʒæ ismɑˈjɯlovɑ/; born 27 May 1976) is an Azerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host who is currently working for the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, until recently as the host of the daily debate show İşdən Sonra.
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Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times (KT) is a daily English language newspaper published in United Arab Emirates. Launched on April 16, 1978, KT is the UAE's oldest and remains the country's longest running English daily.
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Kim Winser
Kim Winser, OBE is a businesswoman born in Helensburgh, Scotland and educated at Purbrook Grammar School, Hampshire, England.
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Klára Dobrev
Klára Dobrev (born 2 February 1972) is the wife of former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány.
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Kumari (goddess)
Kumari, or Kumari Devi, or Living Goddess – Nepal is the tradition of worshipping young pre-pubescent girls as manifestations of the divine female energy or devi in Hindu religious traditions.
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Laura Bates
Laura Bates BEM (born 27 August 1986) is a British feminist writer.
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Laura Janner-Klausner
Laura Naomi Janner-Klausner (לוֹרָה ג׳אָנֶר-קלְוֹזנֶר, born 1 August 1963) is a British rabbi who serves as the senior rabbi to Reform Judaism.
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Laura Jordan Bambach
Laura Jordan Bambach is an Australian digital designer, creative director and influential feminist.
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Laura Perrins
Laura Perrins (née McGowan, born 1981) is co-editor of The Conservative Woman.
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Leimin Duong
Leimin Duong is a Vietnamese-Australian entrepreneur.
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Lesley Yellowlees
Lesley Jane Yellowlees, CBE, FRSE, HonFRSC (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy.
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Leyla Hussein
Leyla Hussein (Leyla Xuseen) is a Somali psychotherapist and social activist.
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Lhakpa Sherpa
Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) (born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.
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Li Tingting
Li Tingting, aka Li Maizi, is a Chinese campaigner and activist for gender equality and sexuality.
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Liliane Landor
Liliane Landor (born c.1956) is a Lebanese-born British journalist and broadcasting executive who works (2018) for Channel 4 as Head of Foreign News.
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Linda Tirado
Linda Tirado is an American author and political activist.
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Ling Zihan
Ling Zihan (凌子涵; born 1987) is a Chinese business executive and entrepreneur.
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List of political hostages held by FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization, listed internationally as a terrorist group by a number of countries.
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Liv Little
Liv Little (born Olivia Little) is the founder of gal-dem - an online and print magazine run by women of colour, for everyone.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative.
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Liz Kelly
Elizabeth A. Kelly CBE (born 1951) is the professor and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU), London Metropolitan University, the former head of the, now defunct, Women's National Commission, and co-chair, along with Marai Larasi, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Louise Stephenson
Louise Stephenson (born 9 July 1995) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition.
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Loujain al-Hathloul
Loujain al-Hathloul (لجين الهذلول; born 31 July 1989) is a Saudi women's rights activist and a social media figure.
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Lubna Tahtamouni
Lubna Hamid Tawfiq Tahtamouni (لبنى تهتموني) is a Jordanian biologist known for her work in developmental biology and cancer research.
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Lucy Finch
Lucy Finch (born 1943) is a palliative nurse who has worked in several African countries and founded a hospice in Malawi – Ndi Moyo – "the place giving life".
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Madawi al-Rasheed
Madawi al-Rasheed (مضاوي الرشيد; born) is a Saudi Arabian professor of social anthropology.
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Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959) is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India.
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Mao Kobayashi (actress)
was a Japanese freelance newscaster and actress.
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María Teresa Ruiz
María Teresa Ruiz (born 24 September 1946) is a Chilean astronomer.
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Maria Zakharova
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova (Мария Владимировна Захарова; born 24 December 1975) is the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) from 10 August 2015.
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Mariane Pearl
Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born 23 July 1967) is a French freelance journalist and a former reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine.
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Mariéme Jamme
Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese businesswoman, blogger, technologist and social entrepreneur based in London.
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Marne Levine
Marne Lynn Levine (born 1971/72) is an American businesswoman, and the chief operating officer (COO) of Instagram since 2014.
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Marta (footballer)
Marta Vieira da Silva (born 19 February 1986), commonly known as Marta, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national team as a forward.
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Marta Sánchez Soler
Martha Fernanda Sánchez Soler (born 1941) is a Mexican sociologist and activist.
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Martha Lane Fox
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, CBE (born 10 February 1973) is a British businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant.
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Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova (Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a former Czechoslovak and later American professional tennis player and coach.
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Mary Akrami
Mary Akrami is the director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center.
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Megan Beveridge
Megan Beveridge (age) is a Scottish soldier who became the first regular army, female "lone piper" at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
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Megan Grano
Megan Grano is an actress and writer from Grosse Pointe (Michigan) known for her work in This Is 40 (2012), Veep (2012) and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003).
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Mercedes Doretti
Mercedes Doretti (born 1959) is an Argentine forensic anthropologist based in New York City.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Mexico City
Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.
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Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who was the President of Chile twice, from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018, the first woman in her country to occupy this position.
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Michelle Mone, Baroness Mone
Michelle Georgina Mone, Baroness Mone, (née Allan, born 8 October 1971, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish entrepreneur, global speaker, designer, innovator and parliamentarian.
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Michelle Sun
Michelle Sun (Chinese: 辛婥琳；born late 1980s) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Hong Kong.
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Mithali Raj
Mithali Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian cricketer and the captain of the Indian women's cricket team in Tests and ODI.
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Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba
Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba is a Botswana administrator, Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General from 2008 to 2014.
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MOBO Awards
The MOBO Awards stands for "Music of Black Origin" and was established in 1996 by Kanya King and Andy Ruffell.
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Momina Mustehsan
Momina Mustehsan (مومنہ مستحسن; born 5 September 1992) is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician and social activist.
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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (منیر شاهرودی فرمانفرمائیان; born 16 December 1922) is an Iranian artist who lives in Tehran and collects traditional folk art.
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Morena Herrera
Morena Herrera is a Salvadoran feminist and social activist, noted for her work against her country's ban on abortion.
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Mumsnet
Mumsnet is a website for parents in the UK.
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Mumtaz Shaikh
Mumtaz Shaikh (born 1981) is a women's rights activist from India who launched a successful campaign for equal access to public toilets in Mumbai.
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Muniba Mazari
Muniba Mazari (منیبہ مزاری; born 3 March 1987) is a Pakistani artist, model, activist, motivational speaker, singer, and television host.
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Muzoon Almellehan
Muzoon Almellehan Arabic(مزون المليحان) is a Syrian activist and refugee resettled in the United Kingdom.
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Nadia Al-Sakkaf
Nadia Al-Sakkaf (born March 8, 1977) is a Yemeni journalist and politician.
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Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Elena Comăneci (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events.
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Nadia Khiari
Nadia Khiari (born 21 May 1973) is a Tunisian cartoonist, painter, graffiti artist and art teacher.
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Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Jamir Hussain (née Begum; born 25 December 1984) is a British TV Chef, author and television presenter.
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Nana Akua Oppong Birmeh
Nana Akua Oppong Birmeh is a Ghanaian architect and winner of the year 2017 Forty under 40 Awards under architecture.
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Nareen Shammo
Nareen Shammo (born 1986 in Bashiqa, Iraq) is a Yazidi investigative journalist and a human rights defender.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Natalia Ponce de León
Natalia Ponce de León (born c. 1981) is a Colombian woman and crime victim who successfully campaigned for a law targeting perpetrators of acid attacks in her country.
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Natasha Walter
Natasha Walter (born 20 January 1967) is a British feminist writer and human rights activist.
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Nawaal Akram
Nawaal Akram is a Qatari comedian, model, athlete and disability rights campaigner.
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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي, born 27 October 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist.
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Nay El Rahi
Nay El Rahi is a journalist, researcher, activist, and gender advocacy professional from Beirut, Lebanon.
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Neha Singh
Neha Singh (born 1982) is a female Indian campaigner who encourages women to ignore harassment and reclaim the public space.
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Nemata Majeks-Walker
Dr.Nemata Majeks-Walker, is a Sierra Leonean women's rights activist.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian, an economist and the first female Minister of Finance.
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Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dung
Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Dung (born 13 December 1993) is a Vietnamese footballer who plays as a midfielder.
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Nicky Moffat
Brigadier Nicola Patricia Moffat, (born 1962), known as Nicky Moffat, was the highest-ranking woman in the British Army from 2009 until her resignation in 2012.
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Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams (born 26 October 1982) is a British professional boxer.
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Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti (born 20 July 1987) is a Scottish classical violinist.
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Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who is the current First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), in office since November 2014.
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Nigar Nazar
Nigar Nazar (born 1953) is the first Pakistani female cartoonist.
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Niloufar Ardalan
Niloufar Ardalan (born 2 June 1985) is an Iranian football player currently playing for "Zob Ahan Banovan".
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Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma (born 27 January 1949), sometimes referred to by her initials NDZ, is a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, currently serving as Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission for Policy and Evaluation.
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Oby Ezekwesili
Obiageli Ezekwesili (28 april 1963) popularly known as Oby Ezekwesili is a Nigerian chartered accountant from Anambra state.
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Open Society Foundations
Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.
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Open University
The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.
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Orzala Ashraf Nemat
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Zainab Bangura
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Zimasa Mabela
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